Consuming Desire: Roger Rosenblatt edits an anthology looking at the shadow side of yearning — consuming desires driven by the engines of capitalism and the ecstasies of consumerism.

Love Is a Fire: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee reflects upon the Sufi path as one based on the yearning for God.

Desiring Life: Norvene Vest explores Benedictine spirituality as a key to unlocking the Divine dimension in everyday life.

Fiction

Some heroic figures in religion speak to those of us who yearn to express ourselves creatively in the name of God. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen by Barbara Lachman is a fictional work that imagines a year in the life of this highly gifted twelfth century abbess who founded an autonomous community of Benedictine nuns. In these pages, Hildegard comes across as a prolific composer of liturgical songs, an accomplished healer, and a reflective spiritual leader. All of this grows out of her constant yearning to do God's will.